#(falling from a tree)

[thoughtsonhurtandcomfort]

Shae + 🍂??

from falling muses prompts

🍂fall out of a tree

Content Warnings: tiny whump, faerie whump, cold weather, environmental whump, falling, cuts/scratches, mild injury, brief mention of an animal attack

(thank you!)

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At the time, climbing this high seemed like a good idea. Running for his life from a hungry lynx, Shae had spotted a thick evergreen among the barren trees and scrambled up it. Up and up and up until the needles were too thick for the cat to follow and the pine masked his scent.

Shae only stops when he is too spent to go on. Straddling a thin branch, he flops back against the trunk and lets his burning limbs dangle. It takes him several minutes to catch his breath.

He has no intention of coming down that night. Not when gleaming eyes, sharp teeth and claws like daggers might be waiting. The adrenaline of the chase starts to fade and Shae quickly dozes off.

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Morning brings strong winds whistling through the forest. The sky is gray and the air carries the sharp chill of winter.

The little faerie wakes shivering. He wraps his arms tight around himself but it's no substitute for the jacket he shed the day before, trying to throw the lynx off his scent. His shoes are long gone and his clothes are threadbare, the same tunic and pants he's been wearing since getting lost weeks ago. They do little to stave off the cold.

He has to get down...get somewhere warmer, maybe some bushes or, if he's lucky, an abandoned burrow -

A sudden gust slams into the tree so suddenly that Shae, numb and groggy, doesn't even have a chance to hold on. The branches rattle and Shae loses his balance and topples from his perch.

The tightly packed branches at the top slow his fall while the needles scratch his skin and catch on his clothes. Shae scrambles for something to hold onto. He manages to grab a twig, one barely strong enough to hold him. It sags from his weight and Shae slides down to the end, tearing up the skin of his palm. He nearly lets go and only at the last moment brings his other hand up to cling to the twig.

Shae sways there for several moments, catching his breath. As his racing heart calms the sharp sting of his scratches and cuts and bleeding hand catch up with him. He whimpers and looks down; the ground looks so far away, and he doesn’t know if he has the strength to make the climb...

He never gets to find out.

Another strong wind plucks the faerie from the twig and sends him flying to the next tree over where he smacks into the trunk. This tree is barren; there is nowhere for him to go but down.

Shae drops like a stone until he hits the first branch. It’s almost thick enough to hold him, but not quite. He falls again and again, his limp body bouncing from one branch to another, while he is helpless to do anything but let out little oofs and ows.

He lands heavily in a patch of dry leaves. With wobbling arms he tries to prop himself up, but when he puts pressure on his stinging hand it’s more than he can bear, and he collapses.

It’s far from safe but a gnarled root shields him from the wind and the leaves are softer than the ground. Shae is so weak, so battered; his clothes are in shreds, useless against the winter air. The stings of cold and of cuts become indistinguishable from one another.

When a breeze carries more leaves to pile on top of him, it’s almost comforting. As they build it becomes like a blanket. Not quite warm, but safe, shielding him from predators and blocking out the bright gray sky as Shae blinks slowly, blearily, and gives in to sleep.

#tiny whump #faerie whump #cold whump #winter #environmental whump #animal attack mention #fear #escape #lost #trapped #falling #falling from a tree #injuries #cuts #scratches #freezing #whump writing #my writing #my ocs #shae #prompt fill

[bedknees]

op is so real for this

#real #fall out boy #fob #pete wentz #patrick stump #take this to your grave #from under the cork tree #infinity on high #folie a deux #music #tiktok #funny #1k #2k

[reebmiester]

"Bruce is terrible at communicating to his kids that they are family instead of a job, that he's their father and not their boss, and that he views them as his children, not just his wards-" BITCH where do you think he LEARNED that from

#40 years in and alfred still calls himself the butler #smh GRANDPA #batman #bruce wayne #hashtag thats his dad #alfred pennyworth #smh he could have been bruce pennyworth. he could have had it all #apple doesn't fall far from the emotionally repressed tree #i should sleep #i love alfred dont come at me i just want more bruce angst

[andpierres]

a little less 🕯🕯🕯 (im not putting sixteen entire candle emojis here you get the idea)

#a little less sixteen candles a little more touch me #from under the cork tree #fall out boy #fob #art #id in alt #sticker sheet & shaker charm preorder announcement. Soon

[casheugh]

“Why don’t you just drop dead?”

#fall out boy #a little less sixteen candles a little more touch me #from under the cork tree #music video #pop punk #pete wentz #joe trohman #patrick stump #andy hurley #inkart #traditional art #illustration #emo #vampire #drawing

[iero]

SOPHOMORE SLUMP (& the lyric mix-up) Bonner Springs, KS | 6/24/23 | x

#patrick stump #andy hurley #fall out boy #fob #sophomore slump or comeback of the year #sophomore slump #from under the cork tree #fobedit #musicedit #my edit #flashing tw #userangelic #usertiny #usernaysa #useriselin #tuserrobin #Girl help I don't know who to tag in FOB stuff LMAO #Can't fault him for forgetting which parts go where in a nearly 20 year old song y'know?

[thetidegetshighatnight]

I always think about how a HUGE amount of hate for Fall Out Boy comes from homophobia and racism in the early 2000s. Like you look at old chatroom shit where people talk about why they don't like Fall Out Boy, most of what you see is "cuz Pete Wentz is gay". A lot of criticism for their music was (not explicitly, but pretty easy to extrapolate) about how they mixed punk with other, predominately black genres. IMO most modern hate for them is because people know we used to hate them but can't remember why, so they just go with it. Obviously people aren't obligated to like certain music if it isn't their thing, but I know damn well half of their discography would be ADORED today if people actually bothered to listen. The amount of people who I've shown FOB music to who were surprised that they actually liked it? They have been done sooo damn dirty, give these boys the legacy they deserve.

#fall out boy #fob #pete wentz #andy hurley #joe trohman #patrick stump #decaydance #so much (for) stardust #american beauty/american psycho #save rock and roll #mania #folie a deux #infinity on high #from under the cork tree #take this to your grave

[iztea]

a good strong wind will keep you honest

#art #illustration #iztea draws #painting #digital art #environment #text art #word art #lyric art #texture #oc #original art #background art #moody #autumm #fall aesthetic #lyrics from common knowledge by bright eyes #trees art #forest art #desolation

[itshardtosayidowhenidont]

fall out boy albums as sanrio characters! 🎱🫧🔮🐑🐻

#fall out boy #fob #fob fanart #fall out boy fan art #patrick stump #pete wentz #joe trohman #andy hurley #take this to your grave #tttyg #from under the cork tree #futct #infinity on high #ioh #folie a deux #believers never die #save rock and roll #srar #abap #mania #so much for stardust #fob smfs #smfs #sanrio #hello kitty #hello kitty and friends #pompompurin #chococat #kerroppi

[imgayabovethebelt]

#fall out boy #from under the cork tree #fall out boy meme #fob

[torsamors]

Fall Out Boy + Blue (fob + gold) Songs: Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner, I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me, Hum Hallelujah, Fame < Infamy, GINASFS, It's Hard to Say I do When I Don't, The Kid's Aren't Alright, Jetpack Blues, Novocain, Bishop's Knife Trick, Heartbreak Feels so Good Art + Artists: Blue Black - James Nares, Untitled - Justyna Kopania, Halo I - Janne Erkkila, Anthropometrie sans Titre - Yves Klein, Haunted Depths - Nicole Gustafsson, Shake it Off - Iris Scott

#fall out boy #infinity on high #folie a deux #from under the cork tree #take this to your grave #so much (for) stardust #pete wentz #notice how folie has no. blue lyrics. interesting . #they are organized by album<3 btw<3 #** #parallels #color text #fob

[tomsmusictaste]

#sometimes an image just enters your head y’know… and you just have to make it #fall out boy #fob #meme #shitpost #patrick stump #pete wentz #joe trohman #andy hurley #take this to your grave #from under the cork tree #infinity on high #folie a deux #save rock and roll #american beauty american psycho #mania #so much (for) stardust #pop-punk

[sparebutton]

Frozen friends going apple picking🍎

#Ryder and Bruni aren’t really helping but they’re okay with that #I’m not sure how well you could actually climb an apple tree but I guess Honeymaren figured it out #i tried to piece Anna’s outfit together with things she already has #the skirt/bodice is her from her F1 epilogue outfit and her jacket is from her F2 prologue outfit and the belt is from her F2 travel outfit #kinda surprised I never drew something like this before going apple picking is such a Fall activity #drew a lot of this while listening to the Frozen podcast #frozen 2 #frozen #elsa #anna #Kristoff #Olaf #bruni #Ryder #honeymaren #Gale #frohana #elsamaren #Kristanna #my art

[mosspapi]

FUTCT is done! Ended up not doing the words at all because it would be very small and look weird, but I think it's still recognizable without em so I'm fine with it lmao (image description in alt text!)

#every time I post one of these I say I'm gonna do srar next. and every time I Don't do srar #it's scary there's so many little details in it😭 /lh #I've already started on mania tho so! #also just realized the brake lights on the bus r missing. oh well they're small enough I don't think it matters #fob #fall out boy #fall out boy fan art #cross stitch #embroidery #from under the cork tree #armchair creates

[heaveniowa]

sophomore slump or comeback of the year / so much (for) stardust

#sorry tumblr user sunshinerptide lied and posted a new edit #fall out boy edit #fall out boy #fall out boy lyrics #fob lyrics #so much for stardust #smfs #from under the cork tree #futct #sophomore slump or comeback of the year #pete wentz #patrick stump #joe trohman #andy hurley #I cant stop thinkin if theres any typo on there even tho I'm sure theres zero typo because I keep checking the lyrics #sye did something

[viccharine]

dance dance! we’re falling apart to halftime!

(reblogs greatly appreciated!!!!)

EDIT: this is now available as a print in my ko-fi shop! link here [x]

alternate versions and commentary under the cut!

about the piece: this is my first time ever attempting to draw a back—and LET ME TELL YOU. I STRUGGLED. took me a solid 2 hours to figure it out—even then I had to go physically put down the iPad and go on a walk three separate times because I was so frustrated. the things I do to make fob fanart. if you’re confused by the pose, I originally meant for the figure to be laying down, but now it’s more intended to be as though the figure is leaning on something (most likely the headboard of a bed????)—although, the pose was kind of an afterthought as I really just needed to make a lot of space to add in the text (which, as always, is hand lettered except for the “dance dance, fall out boy”)

about the song: dance dance is one of my favorite fall out boy songs, if not my favorite fob song, but I think it’s important to acknowledge the slightly misogynistic undertones of the song. im not saying that the song is misogynistic, nor that fall out boy is misogynistic, but rather that the song was released in 2005 and as a society, we’ve grown in terms of how we speak about women in pop culture. a lot of media, specifically songs from the 2000s (ESPECIALLY emo songs, im looking at you “I write sins”) had this kind of borderline misogynistic tone that is not in any way okay (Im not trying to justify it!!) but was unfortunately normalized.

as an afab person, I love this song, I love this LINE specifically (“why don’t you show me the little bit of spine you’ve been saving for his mattress, love?” goes SO HARD for me), and I think my immense enjoyment of the song doesn’t prevent me from talking about how it fits into misogynistic culture (esp of the 2000s) and it does not mean i accept it

(but also, I don’t really listen to the lyrics of the song anyway—everyone say thank you to Patrick Stump’s enunciation)

anyway that’s it k byeeeeeee (and go stream fall out boy!)

p.s. I forgot to add my watermark so for the sake of me not wanting to go back and edit it in pls don’t repost with credit please and thank yew ?????

#fall out boy #fob #fall out boy fanart #fob fanart #dance dance #from under the cork tree #from under the cork tree fanart #fanart #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #GOD I love this song I love cork tree UGH #pete wentz #andy hurley #patrick stump #joe trohman #bandom #<- still hate that name #fall out boy you will always be famous #xoxo my art